Americans mark Iraq invasion anniversary
Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:31AM
Marjan Asi, Press TV, Washington
As the Iraq war hit the 8-year mark, hundreds of people, many of which were veterans of previous and current U.S. wars, gathered in front of the White House to express their dissatisfaction with the war and current occupations.
With hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed since the beginning of the war and the American troop death toll at over forty-four hundred in Iraq alone, protesters expressed outrage that the wars have not only continued, but have actually escalated and expanded in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and no Libya.
After the rally, some anti-war activists chained themselves to the White House fence and are now being arrested for civil disobedience behind me. Among them are Daniel Ellsberg, the leaker of the famous Pentagon Papers which exposed the quagmire of the Vietnam war.
One Iraq war veteran described why he partook in the civil disobedience.
Protests also took place in several other cities around the country against US involvement in the war in Libya. Following a UN resolution authorizing a no-fly zone over LPublish Postibya, French and U.S. forces took military actions Saturday. French war planes fired the first shots and destroyed tanks and armored vehicles belonging to government troops while US warships fired missiles at Libyan air defense targets.
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